the keys felt alittle sloppy. not really like weighted keys and the esponse was not the best... it did track and play sounds well.. i did not check out the midi response as the keyboard action was a primary decision maker for me... but there were many good features, split keys, transposing, etc..

Excellent starter keyboard for piano, might not be the best but it is a great way to start with.

It is described as having semi-weighted keys, but they are not weighted at all. They are spring loaded keys. The sustain is a little longer than I would like. That being said, it is a great price for an 88 key electric piano. USB-MIDI interface is welcome and works well.

I understand this is a budget keyboard, but I believe it?s one huge flaw is the touch/velocity control.
The only velocity setting that makes this thing remotely playable is OFF.
Other than that it has a decent feature set.

I had hoped this would make a good practice keyboard for my office, but I?ll have to keep looking.. I will donate it to a school or church for beginners to learn with. Not a huge loss considering the price.

So far it works great, I bought it to learn to play because it links into my mac1 mini. I am happy with my purchase.

The keys feel fine, but the velocity is absolute whack. The difference in sound between hitting the keys normally and anything harder than that is extreme, and the onboard sounds are awful which only exacerbate this issue. Also, the onboard sound samples themselves are of incredibly poor quality, no matter what audio output device I use the audio is peaking or otherwise sounds terrible. Maybe if you only need a full size midi controller you could buy this, but even still there?s many better options.

This is a cool piece of gear.

The sounds are ok. Good, not Great.
I've never had a digital piano at ANY price point that sounded or felt like a real one. This is better than what you're going to see at costco in their Xmas instrument aisle.

I fell it's good enough. If you are looking to play this professionally, it might not be rich enough sounding for a piano bar. It's been great for band practice.

If you've ever practiced on a small scale keyboard and then found you were missing keys or hurting your hand stretching - this full size keyboard will help tremendously. It's less than an inch smaller across the whole keyboard than my upright grand piano - so that's less than 1/88th smaller per key!

The action is terrible - totally whiffy - I couldn't discern any weighting at ALL ( - 1 star ) - and I would gladly pay monoprice twice as much for a truly weighted version.

It has the General midi set of sounds built in, but to access them is a confusing layout of holding the function button and trying to remember which key stands for what digit in the 3 digit code you need to input. It's a bit of a nightmare, and I've had to put tape on the keys and mark them in sharpie.
( -1 star )

Where this instrument TRULY shines is as an instructional tool.
It comes with TWO headphone outs, and you can split the keyboard in half - so a student and teacher hear each other and can practice silently in an apartment. With more of us working from home, this is a big plus too! It's given me a side hustle with lessons now.

Really, I rate this 4 stars as a learning keyboard. I hope monoprice comes out with a more advanced version with a bonus GREAT piano sound and heavy weighted keys ( Heavy action would beat the competition. Why try to just be as good! )
I'd also like to see a case or bag for this too.

Oh - I should add it's very lightweight, and the way it's molded on the bottom gives you lots of ways to carry it.

You may not see a rack of buttons above the keyboard but don't let that confuse you, they are accomplished via the function button and the well marked piano keys. The semi-weighted keyboard is just that, SEMI ("Touch" 0-3-stage adjustable hit). One key is very slightly height misaligned, very slight, has no effect on playing. You get USB midi out so you can use it with any midi software. It finds it's own driver but you need midi software for more than just the general midi voices. They need to up the price and offer a package deal with software to make this a really good deal.